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Urban Juxtaposition

Off the Wall

Waiting at Rancho

Mannequins in the Marketplace

Oil City
 

"One thing I know for certain.  I am strongly attached to Los Angeles,  where most of my photographic images have been captured.  I am not attached because L.A. is a metropolitan paradise. It is not. Rather, I am attached because L.A. seems always to be in the process of remaking itself. It is a place where people are given permission to express meaning in their lives through bizarre forms. It is a place where demographic change has been breathtaking, but where rules of engagement for multiethnic living are often engagingly relaxed.  It is a place where people regularly confront brutality on the streets, then--often only a few steps away--experience tenderness and generosity. It is a place where extremes of economic inequality are  frustratingly present. 

L.A. 's civic future is everywhere a matter for debate and anxiety. That is why being a photographer there can be both perplexing and exhilarating."

John Orr, 2005

Perspectives on Urban Photography